YOU KNOW THE DRILL: DO SOME PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, and you can lower your risk of chronic diseases and early mortality. But today, I want to also focus on my four top tips for staying fit with age.
Let’s get right to my four tips for staying fit with age: First, get sufficient sleep. Second, keep mentally active. Third, be social. And fourth, move.
“I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
To me, aging is not the loss of my youth but a series of chapters unfolding, often offering new growth opportunities.
The downside? I don’t especially enjoy awakening with a pain I cannot explain. Or not hearing as well in very noisy spaces.
1. Staying Fit With Age: I Get Sufficient Sleep.
I put sleep first, as it is an oft-forgotten tool for pushing back against aging. As I entered my 60s, I wondered if we need less sleep as we age.
